🏳️⚧️ Zoey Odyssia (She/Her)
@zoeyodyssia.bsky.social
She/Her🏳️⚧️ Transfem and RP nerd
Writing my campaign setting:
Oddities In Engress
Follow for TTRPG opinions, roleplay, worldbuilding, and mapmaking
Oddities in Engress TTRPG community:
discord.com/invite/VMMGdgSg3M
Play with me:
startplaying.games/gm/zoey
Writing my campaign setting:
Oddities In Engress
Follow for TTRPG opinions, roleplay, worldbuilding, and mapmaking
Oddities in Engress TTRPG community:
discord.com/invite/VMMGdgSg3M
Play with me:
startplaying.games/gm/zoey
My first ever #DnD map, over a decade ago. I used an online map generator and just added lines and labels. Ah, the simple days of #mapmaking!
Havensia is now a distant continent in my current setting, a land of fracture nations following the release of chaos from its ancient prison by past players.
Havensia is now a distant continent in my current setting, a land of fracture nations following the release of chaos from its ancient prison by past players.
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
My first ever #DnD map, over a decade ago. I used an online map generator and just added lines and labels. Ah, the simple days of #mapmaking!
Havensia is now a distant continent in my current setting, a land of fracture nations following the release of chaos from its ancient prison by past players.
Havensia is now a distant continent in my current setting, a land of fracture nations following the release of chaos from its ancient prison by past players.
An old map of the Erinian Confederacy. Annotated many years ago by Falgorn, a legendary hero who swore to slay the gods after the death of his wife.
Falgorn slew many foes, but never returned from his final battle at the pinnacle of the heavens.
#ttrpg #mapmaking #worldbuilding #dnd #tabletop
Falgorn slew many foes, but never returned from his final battle at the pinnacle of the heavens.
#ttrpg #mapmaking #worldbuilding #dnd #tabletop
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
An old map of the Erinian Confederacy. Annotated many years ago by Falgorn, a legendary hero who swore to slay the gods after the death of his wife.
Falgorn slew many foes, but never returned from his final battle at the pinnacle of the heavens.
#ttrpg #mapmaking #worldbuilding #dnd #tabletop
Falgorn slew many foes, but never returned from his final battle at the pinnacle of the heavens.
#ttrpg #mapmaking #worldbuilding #dnd #tabletop
I ask all #ttrpg players this list of questions about their characters before they start playing.
With a new Oddities In Engress campaign about to start, I put together a doc with guidelines based on lessons learned.
Feel free to repurpose this for your own #dnd character-building needs!
With a new Oddities In Engress campaign about to start, I put together a doc with guidelines based on lessons learned.
Feel free to repurpose this for your own #dnd character-building needs!
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Obsidian graph view for my #TTRPG setting, Oddities in Engress!
I turned off all the filters so I could see everything at once and it blew me away.
This shows all my #worldbuilding notes, images, music, and how it's all connected
#dnd #tabletop #dungeonsanddragons
I turned off all the filters so I could see everything at once and it blew me away.
This shows all my #worldbuilding notes, images, music, and how it's all connected
#dnd #tabletop #dungeonsanddragons
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Obsidian graph view for my #TTRPG setting, Oddities in Engress!
I turned off all the filters so I could see everything at once and it blew me away.
This shows all my #worldbuilding notes, images, music, and how it's all connected
#dnd #tabletop #dungeonsanddragons
I turned off all the filters so I could see everything at once and it blew me away.
This shows all my #worldbuilding notes, images, music, and how it's all connected
#dnd #tabletop #dungeonsanddragons
Last night my #dnd players returned to their detective agency to find out a local news agency had written a hit-piece on them. I had the players tell me what would be on it!
They spent 40 minutes after the session ended planning their revenge against the news agency.
#ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons
They spent 40 minutes after the session ended planning their revenge against the news agency.
#ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Last night my #dnd players returned to their detective agency to find out a local news agency had written a hit-piece on them. I had the players tell me what would be on it!
They spent 40 minutes after the session ended planning their revenge against the news agency.
#ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons
They spent 40 minutes after the session ended planning their revenge against the news agency.
#ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons
I'm in the Yukon! Of course I couldn't help but check out the local TTRPG scene in Whitehorse. Even this far north there's a hobby shop/bar called Titans Tavern and Geek Shop
Food was way better than I expected, and there was a ton of people playing mtg, dnd, and warhammer40k. (1/2)
Food was way better than I expected, and there was a ton of people playing mtg, dnd, and warhammer40k. (1/2)
September 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I'm in the Yukon! Of course I couldn't help but check out the local TTRPG scene in Whitehorse. Even this far north there's a hobby shop/bar called Titans Tavern and Geek Shop
Food was way better than I expected, and there was a ton of people playing mtg, dnd, and warhammer40k. (1/2)
Food was way better than I expected, and there was a ton of people playing mtg, dnd, and warhammer40k. (1/2)
Phase 2!
Crashing the train, blowing it up along with Project: Manifest... it isn't enough. Time to finish this fight before something ungodly is unleashed upon the world.
Ok the players managed to find another solution besides derailing the train but I had this prepared just in case!
#ttrpg #dnd
Crashing the train, blowing it up along with Project: Manifest... it isn't enough. Time to finish this fight before something ungodly is unleashed upon the world.
Ok the players managed to find another solution besides derailing the train but I had this prepared just in case!
#ttrpg #dnd
August 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Playtested the TTRPG Vibe Check with the creator @redshiftedgame.bsky.social yesterday. It was a ton of fun, and exceedingly silly.
I was a defence contractor leading a mix of summoned workers and soldiers. My workers built two trucks and bunkers on the flatbeds. We rode them gallantly into battle.
I was a defence contractor leading a mix of summoned workers and soldiers. My workers built two trucks and bunkers on the flatbeds. We rode them gallantly into battle.
August 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Playtested the TTRPG Vibe Check with the creator @redshiftedgame.bsky.social yesterday. It was a ton of fun, and exceedingly silly.
I was a defence contractor leading a mix of summoned workers and soldiers. My workers built two trucks and bunkers on the flatbeds. We rode them gallantly into battle.
I was a defence contractor leading a mix of summoned workers and soldiers. My workers built two trucks and bunkers on the flatbeds. We rode them gallantly into battle.
So here is the power that literally towers over the others in a crime fortress inspired by kowloon walled city.
The Bastards Of Bastion (Bobs) are the cities ruling crime syndicate. All gangs north of the river pay tribute to the Bobs, and they operate as a council called The Trubunal.
The Bastards Of Bastion (Bobs) are the cities ruling crime syndicate. All gangs north of the river pay tribute to the Bobs, and they operate as a council called The Trubunal.
August 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So here is the power that literally towers over the others in a crime fortress inspired by kowloon walled city.
The Bastards Of Bastion (Bobs) are the cities ruling crime syndicate. All gangs north of the river pay tribute to the Bobs, and they operate as a council called The Trubunal.
The Bastards Of Bastion (Bobs) are the cities ruling crime syndicate. All gangs north of the river pay tribute to the Bobs, and they operate as a council called The Trubunal.
Another look at the map of the city Engress, this time with an overlay showing all the gangs in the city and their turf!
Ask me anything about the city gangs! I'll give you the answer, worldbuild it on the spot if there isn't one.
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart #cartography #fantasymapmaking
Ask me anything about the city gangs! I'll give you the answer, worldbuild it on the spot if there isn't one.
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart #cartography #fantasymapmaking
August 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Another look at the map of the city Engress, this time with an overlay showing all the gangs in the city and their turf!
Ask me anything about the city gangs! I'll give you the answer, worldbuild it on the spot if there isn't one.
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart #cartography #fantasymapmaking
Ask me anything about the city gangs! I'll give you the answer, worldbuild it on the spot if there isn't one.
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart #cartography #fantasymapmaking
Explaining my dnd campaign to people like:
"There was an entire arc where the party became increasingly more paranoid about any mention of potatoes, but they weren't sure why."
"... what?!"
"They were right tho. The potatoes were turning people into super-werewolves!" #ttrpg #dndhumor
"There was an entire arc where the party became increasingly more paranoid about any mention of potatoes, but they weren't sure why."
"... what?!"
"They were right tho. The potatoes were turning people into super-werewolves!" #ttrpg #dndhumor
August 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The next page of my #ttrpg campaign setting Oddities In Engress! Feedback appreciated :)
Now that you have the full introduction to the campaign setting, what kind of character would you make? What would their role be at the agency?
#dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback #ttrpgs
Now that you have the full introduction to the campaign setting, what kind of character would you make? What would their role be at the agency?
#dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback #ttrpgs
August 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The next page of my #ttrpg campaign setting Oddities In Engress! Feedback appreciated :)
Now that you have the full introduction to the campaign setting, what kind of character would you make? What would their role be at the agency?
#dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback #ttrpgs
Now that you have the full introduction to the campaign setting, what kind of character would you make? What would their role be at the agency?
#dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback #ttrpgs
I made the decision early on to avoid race or species division - the setting has enough division already in terms of wealth and class.
The mayor himself is an orc!
As for other demographic measures, here's a map that I a made showing wealth distribution:
The mayor himself is an orc!
As for other demographic measures, here's a map that I a made showing wealth distribution:
August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I made the decision early on to avoid race or species division - the setting has enough division already in terms of wealth and class.
The mayor himself is an orc!
As for other demographic measures, here's a map that I a made showing wealth distribution:
The mayor himself is an orc!
As for other demographic measures, here's a map that I a made showing wealth distribution:
The Introduction page of my #ttrpg campaign, Oddities In Engress!
What do you think? Does it hook you? Does it sound like a campaign setting you'd want to explore?
#ttrpgs #dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback
What do you think? Does it hook you? Does it sound like a campaign setting you'd want to explore?
#ttrpgs #dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback
August 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Introduction page of my #ttrpg campaign, Oddities In Engress!
What do you think? Does it hook you? Does it sound like a campaign setting you'd want to explore?
#ttrpgs #dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback
What do you think? Does it hook you? Does it sound like a campaign setting you'd want to explore?
#ttrpgs #dnd #worldbuilding #writingfeedback
While solving mysteries and navigating intrigue as members of a detective agency in my #ttrpg setting Oddities In Engress, players access different map overlays like income distribution to provide extra info to help crack the case!
AMA about any district on the map!
#cartography #worldbuilding
AMA about any district on the map!
#cartography #worldbuilding
August 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
While solving mysteries and navigating intrigue as members of a detective agency in my #ttrpg setting Oddities In Engress, players access different map overlays like income distribution to provide extra info to help crack the case!
AMA about any district on the map!
#cartography #worldbuilding
AMA about any district on the map!
#cartography #worldbuilding
Logistics companies love magic!
Swifter Grocer is a megacorp that uses bags of holding and autonomous flying brooms to deliver goods right to your door! They've expanded far beyond groceries.
This #worldbuilding for my TTRPG setting Oddities In Engress was inspired by the 5e dnd flying broomstick:
Swifter Grocer is a megacorp that uses bags of holding and autonomous flying brooms to deliver goods right to your door! They've expanded far beyond groceries.
This #worldbuilding for my TTRPG setting Oddities In Engress was inspired by the 5e dnd flying broomstick:
August 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Logistics companies love magic!
Swifter Grocer is a megacorp that uses bags of holding and autonomous flying brooms to deliver goods right to your door! They've expanded far beyond groceries.
This #worldbuilding for my TTRPG setting Oddities In Engress was inspired by the 5e dnd flying broomstick:
Swifter Grocer is a megacorp that uses bags of holding and autonomous flying brooms to deliver goods right to your door! They've expanded far beyond groceries.
This #worldbuilding for my TTRPG setting Oddities In Engress was inspired by the 5e dnd flying broomstick:
ALL TURTLES are dragon turtles in my #ttrpg setting Oddities In Engress
They are from Magus, the plane of magic, and use their shells to convert magic into calories! On Materia with lower ambient magic they are slow, small, and lethargic.
Tho if one basks at a leyline nexus, shits gonna get wild.
They are from Magus, the plane of magic, and use their shells to convert magic into calories! On Materia with lower ambient magic they are slow, small, and lethargic.
Tho if one basks at a leyline nexus, shits gonna get wild.
August 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ALL TURTLES are dragon turtles in my #ttrpg setting Oddities In Engress
They are from Magus, the plane of magic, and use their shells to convert magic into calories! On Materia with lower ambient magic they are slow, small, and lethargic.
Tho if one basks at a leyline nexus, shits gonna get wild.
They are from Magus, the plane of magic, and use their shells to convert magic into calories! On Materia with lower ambient magic they are slow, small, and lethargic.
Tho if one basks at a leyline nexus, shits gonna get wild.
As a #ttrpg player, it breaks my immersion when people are always ready to throw down without trying avenues like intimidation, bribery, appeals to better nature, etc
I wind up playing a lot of characters who challenge the worlds violent status quo because it's hard for me to just accept game logic
I wind up playing a lot of characters who challenge the worlds violent status quo because it's hard for me to just accept game logic
August 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As a #ttrpg player, it breaks my immersion when people are always ready to throw down without trying avenues like intimidation, bribery, appeals to better nature, etc
I wind up playing a lot of characters who challenge the worlds violent status quo because it's hard for me to just accept game logic
I wind up playing a lot of characters who challenge the worlds violent status quo because it's hard for me to just accept game logic
Thing is, the book also says the GM should take the spotlight when (see screenshot)
I'm thinking the suggestion that the GM can use fear tokens to act twice in a row, or when it's otherwise not normally appropriate, was probably the closest to the design intent
I'm thinking the suggestion that the GM can use fear tokens to act twice in a row, or when it's otherwise not normally appropriate, was probably the closest to the design intent
August 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thing is, the book also says the GM should take the spotlight when (see screenshot)
I'm thinking the suggestion that the GM can use fear tokens to act twice in a row, or when it's otherwise not normally appropriate, was probably the closest to the design intent
I'm thinking the suggestion that the GM can use fear tokens to act twice in a row, or when it's otherwise not normally appropriate, was probably the closest to the design intent
Reading the daggerheart SRD.
I'm struggling to decode the spotlights design intent. Its organic, unless there's a a trigger, but the GM sometimes has to spend fear tokens to claim it?
What the heck dictates that part of the game? Will this be explained later? - Questions that recur as I read.
I'm struggling to decode the spotlights design intent. Its organic, unless there's a a trigger, but the GM sometimes has to spend fear tokens to claim it?
What the heck dictates that part of the game? Will this be explained later? - Questions that recur as I read.
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reading the daggerheart SRD.
I'm struggling to decode the spotlights design intent. Its organic, unless there's a a trigger, but the GM sometimes has to spend fear tokens to claim it?
What the heck dictates that part of the game? Will this be explained later? - Questions that recur as I read.
I'm struggling to decode the spotlights design intent. Its organic, unless there's a a trigger, but the GM sometimes has to spend fear tokens to claim it?
What the heck dictates that part of the game? Will this be explained later? - Questions that recur as I read.
Last night, my players boarded a train in search of a weapons manufacturer's project manifest.
Instead, they found Project: Manifest inside a locked and chained metal box. One player noticed the ':' was important, but she was driving the train! They opened the box.
Roll for initiative!
#ttrpg #dnd
Instead, they found Project: Manifest inside a locked and chained metal box. One player noticed the ':' was important, but she was driving the train! They opened the box.
Roll for initiative!
#ttrpg #dnd
August 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
GMs: Don't do any prep for your next TTPRG session.
The best way you can build your improvisation skill is by challenging yourself to run the best session you can with the least preparation.
This is one of the strongest skills you can have as a GM. No prep survives contact with the players
#ttrpgs
The best way you can build your improvisation skill is by challenging yourself to run the best session you can with the least preparation.
This is one of the strongest skills you can have as a GM. No prep survives contact with the players
#ttrpgs
August 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
GMs: Don't do any prep for your next TTPRG session.
The best way you can build your improvisation skill is by challenging yourself to run the best session you can with the least preparation.
This is one of the strongest skills you can have as a GM. No prep survives contact with the players
#ttrpgs
The best way you can build your improvisation skill is by challenging yourself to run the best session you can with the least preparation.
This is one of the strongest skills you can have as a GM. No prep survives contact with the players
#ttrpgs
Pathfinder (1e) is awful for me BECAUSE I'm the kind of person who pours over every mechanic and feat and try to make a really creative build
You'd think it was built for me, but I start creating a character and wake up two weeks later with a hangover, 100+tabs open, and nothing on my sheet.
#ttrpg
You'd think it was built for me, but I start creating a character and wake up two weeks later with a hangover, 100+tabs open, and nothing on my sheet.
#ttrpg
August 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Pathfinder (1e) is awful for me BECAUSE I'm the kind of person who pours over every mechanic and feat and try to make a really creative build
You'd think it was built for me, but I start creating a character and wake up two weeks later with a hangover, 100+tabs open, and nothing on my sheet.
#ttrpg
You'd think it was built for me, but I start creating a character and wake up two weeks later with a hangover, 100+tabs open, and nothing on my sheet.
#ttrpg
The LOD in this at high zoom is crazy. Try taking a look for this on the full map
August 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The LOD in this at high zoom is crazy. Try taking a look for this on the full map
The City Engress, the main location in Oddities In Engress, laboriously crafted in vector format for high detail zoom!
This was probably over 100 hours of work, often 6 hours at a time.
I've also made a couple overlays with info the players might need!
#ttrpg #cartography #fantasymap
This was probably over 100 hours of work, often 6 hours at a time.
I've also made a couple overlays with info the players might need!
#ttrpg #cartography #fantasymap
August 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The City Engress, the main location in Oddities In Engress, laboriously crafted in vector format for high detail zoom!
This was probably over 100 hours of work, often 6 hours at a time.
I've also made a couple overlays with info the players might need!
#ttrpg #cartography #fantasymap
This was probably over 100 hours of work, often 6 hours at a time.
I've also made a couple overlays with info the players might need!
#ttrpg #cartography #fantasymap